Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31292193-20170322215318/@comment-31292193-20170506225518

It probably is. Well, at least smogon has good sets, but....

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It has dedicated people who have spent UNIMAGINABLE amounts of time perfecting, trying and testing those sets, and then you go and ridicule people for using those sets, which people have spent so long testing? On the other hand, you can't expect to win every battle by copypasting a set straight from the Smog. IMO People who copy those exact sets without any team synergy aren't skilled. But who can blame them? They want to get better, and readily available is a site made by people who are DEDICATED to pokemon battling. What kind of sane person wouldn't accept that? Just because someone uses a site made by some great people, you ridicule them. You shame them. And is there a reason? Oh yes, it's 'because they should learn on their own'. I can't imagine high school students getting through school without wikipedia these days. Smogon is like the pokemon wikipedia (And no, DONT  reply with a smarta** answer like Bulbapedia). And then you trying to make them stop using smogon because of how YOU view it, is kind of like saying ' dumbo, get off your learning aids loser, and fail because I don't like this thing you're using'. You get a blessing, you accept it, unless you're insane or already have it. Then people who are tired of having the same old sets thrown at them (fair, actually) try and root out any smogon users and destroy them. (Not so fair, eh?) Just because one of group A did something doesn't mean group B must execute the whole of group A, does it? Because the opposite is exactly the replica of what is happening. You can give advice to edit the set, point out flaws, but it does NOT mean that you should say "ugh its smogon this person is a noob", or anything similar sounding. You're ridiculing two people (or more) at once. It's (Pardon the crude joke) ridiculous, what you are saying to people who just want to get better at a game, and then to have a user who decides 'This whole organisation who helped a bunch of people? Naw....' To go and ruin their experience of a what is supposed to be a fun game, by attempting to shame them for using the pokemon battling wikipedia for tips.